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A Next Generation article has emerged recently, covering EA's latest upcoming title announcements, which include The Sims 3, and a progress report on Spore. Quote:

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Commenting the progress of Spore, EA's North American publishing boss Frank Gibeau said, "The development on Spore is going great. As you know, it's an extremely ambitious and innovative game. Will and the team over at Emeryville are making strong progress and we're excited about that game shipping in the next fiscal year."

The next fiscal year begins in April 2007 apparently.

On a sidenote, it turns out the stats have changed on the Spore creatures once again. You can catch them in that video in my last post. They are now:

• Speed
  
• Stealth
  
• Defense
  
• Social
  
• Cuteness

This seems somewhat simplified compared to before. Herbivore, Omnivore, and Carnivore stats seem to have been removed from here, maybe they're somewhere else now? Presumably there is still some way to determine those stats.